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Re: Trouble with Fast Breaths

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-07-03 08:08

Well Ray I don't remember making that open of a mouthpiece for you, unless it was requested to match the Vandoren RD model. I try to discourage anything over 1.09.

Good news or bad news whatever way you look at it, is Harold Wright had asthma and played on a tip opening of 1.01. A Chedeville. Maybe we should study this approach. We surely can try a 1.03 to 1.04 with your Legere 4 plus strength reed.

Maybe ask your teacher once you get settled in school. Send me your address and I'll get a closer facing out to you.

Steve Barta studied with Wright and Marcellus and taught at Peabody and made the comment to me that Gennusa at Peabody had the best sound by far. He was using about a 1.02. I should know as I made the first 6 mouthpieces for him. Sadly he went on his own thinking he could make a better mouthpiece but never was able. The secret was in the baffle/chamber and I never gave him the measurements.

An interesting story, Wright, Marcellus, Barta, and Gennusa all played with a double lip, but Steve Barta and Bob Marcellus went back to single lip playing. Steve does play some pieces with a double lip. I kind of like this move, because there is a sound difference with some players.

Back to my comments above. Try a balloon and also a closer facing, I see no reason why you would ever need to give up playing. Just make some changes. This may include different horns at one point, but consider a mouthpiece change and maybe a barrel change for now. Maybe even go to cane reeds for a short time. College is the place for discovery and fine tuning your skills.

Bob

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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